China Must Prepare for Imminent War With North Korea, Top National Security Experts Warn

China Must Prepare for Imminent War With North Korea, Top National Security Experts Warn

It's not just the United States that could soon see itself engaged in a deadly conflict with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Conditions on the peninsula now make for the biggest risk of a war in decades,” said Shi Yinhong, director of the Center on American Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing and an adviser to the State Council of China on diplomacy issues since February 2011, during the conference. “North Korea is a time bomb. Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, an important military region, warned that a war could begin as soon as March, when South Korea and the United States are slated to hold annual military drills. “It is a highly dangerous period,” Wang said during the conference.